Sunday, April 02, 2006

Analysis of the Non-material Aggregates, etc.

14 c/d)
Sensation is experience. Ideation’s
nature is to apprehend characteristics.

15)
Formation is different than the other four aggregates.
Those three, along with non-informative and
unconditioned phenomena,
are called the gateway or element of phenomena.

16)
Consciousness cognizes individually,
that is also called the mental gateway.
Also asserted as the seven elements, i.e.
the six consciousnesses and the mind.

17)
Whatever is the sixth, and the immediately past
consciousness, that is the mind.
Because the basis of the six is well established,
the elements are asserted to be eighteen.

18)
One aggregate, gateway
and element include all phenomena
by their own nature,
for that reason do not belong to another thing.

19)
Though the eye and so on may be paired,
because the classification, the experiential domain, and consciousness
are similar there is but one element,
Because of aesthetics a pair occurs.

20)
Heaps, gates of arising, and kind
are the aggregates, gateways and elements.
Because there are three kinds of confusion, faculties, and wishes,
there are three demonstrations, the aggregates and so on.

1 comment:

Malcolm said...

Lacking more context, but nirvana as an aayatana is probably what you are referring to. We typically understand the four formless realms actually as aayatanas, "skye mched", i.e. which are defined as gates [sgo] for arising. In this instance then, nirvana is a gateway of peace, etc.